well fed. their families want to know when they will be freed. the son of reverend lewis wants to know how the ordeal is taking a to the on the pastor's wife. >> even right now, it seems like a dream to her, a nightmare. also, a huge portion of the united states being strangled by drought this hour, which is threatening everything from crops to cattle. 1,000 counties spanning 26 states are now considered drought disaster areas. eventually, you'll likely see the effects in higher food prices. agriculture secretary tom vilsak says the operation of some existing programs has deeply hurt the farmers. >> the usda, the department of agency does not have the tools it once had to help people through this difficult time. >> we'll have more of that interview, coming up. and a video on facebook that

showed the brutal beating of a 62-year-old has now led to murder charges. chicago police charged a 16-year-old gang member with first degree murder in the death of this disabled man who was collecting cans in an alley when he was attacked. and police arrested nba star jason kidd earlier today in south hampton, new york. they say the newly signed new york knicks was drunk and crashed his cadillac escalade into a telephone pole. doctors treated him for minor injuries. kidd signed a $3 million deal with the knicks on wednesday. the syria conflict is now officially a civil war. although u.n. peace keerps have been calling it that since last no.

the u.n. estimates more than 10,000 people have been killed in the fighting. opposition groups say thousands more have died. also today, we learned that the treatment of the syrian people by the regime prompted the highest ranking government defection thus far. and the syrian ambassador to iraq just a few days ago, anwaf assad spoke with our ivan watson. >> i served the syrian regime for 34 years in many different positions. but after what happened the last year during the holy revolution, all of the killings, the massacres b with the refugees, i don't see how anyone can stay silent.

>> my former colleagues, i ask them to leave the regime. you don't know history. two wills cannot be defeated, the love god and the will of the people. >> earlier tonight, i spoke with a man who served two u.s. presidents as the american ambassador to syria. i asked ambassador edward deregin what he thinks this defection says about the disability of syria's leadership. take a listen. >> i think these are the beginning indications of the dissent within the syrian government and regime that is now beginning to surface. when you begin to have high level defections like this and also manaf tlas, a general very close to the assad family, it

indicates that the divisions within the government are beginning to surface and i think we can anticipate more defections in the future. >> dow? >> when defections like this begin to occur, the political perception that the regime is being weakened from within is very important. and that can take on a momentum of its own. so it's not so much the importance of one or two or three people defecting, but it's the growing perception that the divisions within the regime are coming to the floor and the regime is beginning to weaken from within. >> who is calling for military intervention from the international community. he said that assad and his regime will not go down without force. do you see this as a clear message from him to the inter

national community that military intervention needs to happen? >> well, i think his judgment that the regime at the end of the day will not go down without force is probably accurate because there's just been too much blood spilled in the streets of syria. i think the hard cora sheem, the military intelligence, the security apparatus and those elite in the community that have been closely identified with the regime, i think at the end of the day, there has just been too much ravaging inside the country for there to be a peaceful -- >> very interesting insight from a man who knows the countries leaders very well.

moving on, could condoleezza rice be up for mitt romney's vp slot? what do you think? we're going to talk about that next. and this -- >> extreme drought, half the u.s. now in a state of emergency. with crop prices already spiking, how much more will it cost to put food on the table? >> we're really not going to know the full extent of this until the cotton is picked and beans and kernels are counted.

we told you earlier about the massive drought across the united states. it likely would not drive up food prices until late this year

or next year. it is going to eventually affect what we all pay for groceries. here is more of candy crawly's interview with tom vilsack. >> we're really not to go to know the full extent of this until the cotton is picked and the beans and kernels are counted. we'll probably see less in terms of crop production. we're still going to be able to meet the food needs of the country, we're still going to be able to export. the real challenge for us, though, is that the usda does not have the tools it once had to help people through these difficult times. it left us with very little option in terms of being able to provide help to them folks and that's why it's imperative that the house leadership get the food and farms bill on the floor

and get it voted on before november 30th. >> we've seen in terms of crop increases, corn up 17%. wheat is up 29%. that is bounce to have an effect on food supply at some level. and what we're talking about here is meat, eggs, poultry, milk. do you expect prices on those products to go up in the grocery store? >> here is the interesting thing about this. and it gives me an opportunity to point out how little of that grocery store dollar the farmers actually get. while these commodity prices will likely increase, it will have a marginal impact on food prices. what really drives food prices more significantly are energy costs. >> it's my understanding, mr. secretary, that prices on a lot of things from cereal to soft drinks and meat prices are up in some cases by 30%.

that has nothing to do with the drought? >> they shouldn't be. the prices and the impact of the drought probably will not likely be seen in the grocery aisle until last next year, 2013. if folks are using this opportunity to raise prices inappropriately, shame on them. >> the race for the white house now, which has been dominated for days by questions about mitt romney's tenure at bain capital. romney ip cysts obama has crossed the line and even pointing to a potential felony. romney says the president should rein in his staff and apologize. the president tells an affiliate that will not happen. >> we won't be apologizing. sometimes games are played during campaigns. mr. romney claims he's mr. fix

it for the economy because of his business experience. so i think voters entirely legitimately want to know, well, what exactly was that business experience? >> condi rice keeps says she doesn't want to be vice president, but her name keeps coming up. will offered plenty of reasons why he thinks rice will certainly not by on the romney ticket. >> we can run through the litany of reasons of why condi rice doesn't make sense to be romney's vp candidate. let's start with the fact that she is pro choice. what's more, she doesn't want to be vice president. it's a nonstarter and the timing of it is obvious because changing the subject. let's not talk about bain. but by the way, the bain

conversation was a subject changer from the jobs report a couple of weeks ago. we're changing subjects away from the things that have a -- >> well, those two are least related, will. at least bain and the jobs report because mitt romney is running on the platform that he can bring more jobs. the condi conversation to me makes no sense. >> condy is very tied to the bush administration. obviously, abortion is huge here. rob portman of ohio, what about bob mcdonald of virginia. two key states here. what do you think of either of those names? >> i've been having a really difficult time. when i saw the question an hour ago, i had to find something that made sense to me because mitt romney is probably trying

to woo the interpret. i don't think adding another conservative is going to help his quest. it's not as if conservative is are going to say, if he doesn't pick the right vp, we're going to vote for president obama. he needs to communicate to the independent he's not as crazy as some of those in his base. personally, i really like mike bloomberg. mike bloomberg said he thinks he could run the president better than president obama. the problem is there's disagreement on the social issues. >> and, will, you think portman would be, you told me in the break, the right choice. >> yeah, that's right. i don't think you look at what the vp candidate is going to bring. i think what you do and what rob portman does is double down on bland. >> why double down on bland? >> because they want the selection to be about barack obama. president barack obama. this election needs to be a

referendum on the job president obama has done over the last four years. you don't need to give the voters something to vote for. you want them to vote again for president barack obama. >> will, how do you energize voters with that strategy? >> i think barack obama has energized them. >> how does mitt romney and a portman ticket energy voters if you say you're doubling down on bland? >> i'm saying i think barack obama has energized them. >> people are going to vote against president obama regardless. he's not going to energy independents looking for solutions and answers. he's just saying he's going to energize people who are already beside him. that doesn't help his ticket at all. >> from politics to smartphones, this thing, it can make calls, send e-mails, videos, but a new iphone add-on proms

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a start-up company is promising a unique new feature for your iphone. you have to hear this one, folks. i talked earlier about it tonight with tech pro john able from reuters. turning an iphone case into a stun gun, apparently this army reservist has done just that. what has he come up with. >> apparently he was attacked in his home and thought the answer to his problems would be to create a cover for the iphone which concert haves into a taser, a stun gun. he is trying to raise money on one of these crowd funding sites. he's got $12,000 in about 13 days and his funding request is

$1100,000. but he'll get to keep the money he gets to -- that gets pledged to him. and he's going to fill these orders. we talk about this and now there's a cover for this. >> i guess. i wonder if the company, you know, taser, is going the be interested in this technology at all. >> well, there are lots of stun gun type things. but literally, this has to be the first thing that actually attaches to your phone. and the idea is you always have your phone, so there's that theory. >> this lass a kick. he said, i knew if i was going to put this thing out into the world, i had to test it on myself. then he added, it hurts. and we're assuming that this is a pretty tough guy. >> well, you know, it's 650,000 volts or whatever it is. of course, in the video, this isn't a piece of him actually

getting stunned by this, so we're going to have to take his word for it. >> now in the big day ahead, our correspondent tells you what you need to know about the campaign plan for the week. >> i'm athena jones at the white house. president obama visits two battleground states this week. he'll be in cincinnati, ohio, on monday, and he spent thursday and friday traveling across florida visiting four cities, including orlando in a region that was central to his 2008 victory in the states. he'll hit the red state of texas on tuesday for fund-raisers in san antonio and austin. >> and i am paul steinhauser at the political desk. mitt romney heads tuesday to pennsylvania and wednesday to ohio. both considered important swing states in the rate for us white house. i'm alison kosik from new york. better than expected profits,

citigroup, coldman sacks, bank of america and morgan stanley will report earnings. we'll hear from heavy hitters on the dow and tech giants microsoft, google, ibm and intel. also on wall street's radar, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke will testify on capitol hill and on the economic calendar will get some insight into the stru struggling housing market and retail sales. here is what we are watching this week. more continuing coverage of tom cruise and katie holmes, how they're splitting their time with their daughter, sri. of course you remember the original karate kid, ralph macchio, right? he'll be joining us this week, as well. a mystery illness that killed dozens of children is no longer a mystery. two doctors teamed up to crack the case in cambodia and save untold lives. that's next.

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dozens of children in cambodia were dying of a mystery illness. it isn't a mystery any more. >> the only thing doctors knew for sure was when the children arrived at the hospital, they were dying and fast. convulsions, fever, encephaliti and then the lungs completely destroyed. since the end of april, doctors in cambodia struggling with a major mystery. >> blood samples of those sick and dying children were eventually brought here and eventually they concluded there were several different pathogens. there was antivirus 71, stre streptocaccus. so cause this case, the labs had

to work backwards. >> the first thing that goes through your head is to try and determine whether this is one of the usual suspects that you hadn't detected before. if it is, has it mutated or changed in such a way that it causes new disease or is it something new? >> two french doctors living in cambodia solved the mystery. >> once of the things we've heard several times now from the world health organization is no steroid should be used. they seem to say that steroids made this problem worse. >> when you have a dying child, you try to use what you have at hand and they were right to try that. now, whether or not it helps remain toes be different. >> i don't want to belabor the point, but they really seem to indicate that it hurt. that these infections, a lot of

times they can be dangerous and something pushes them over the top. they thought that the steroids seem to be a common denominator. >> from the cases they reviewed, almost all of the children died and almost all of them had steroids. >> steroids can be a potent anti-inflammatory. but steroids can also suppress the body's own immune system as was the case with enterovirus 71. >> you hear about a lot of different viruses, avian flu, ev71, as far as they could tell, really had not been in come body ya before, for sure. why does it suddenly appear like this and why is it appear with such a vengeance? >> it looks like this has emerged strongly, probably

because it had not circulated to the same -- with the same intensity in the past year. >> it's believed that a slight variation in the ev71 made the virus stronger and the steroids made the body's resistance even weaker. >> so case closed, it sounds like the case is closed now from your standpoint. >> yes, i think we can close the case. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, cambodia. how do we, as americans, view public figures when they fall from grace? do we judge them on their lifetime of work or the reason for their fall? that discussion, coming up next. to safely and responsibly providing generations of cleaner-burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self-contained well systems. and, using state-of-the-art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities

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outlandish. the staffer, carlisa cole, faces charges of making an illegal recording in the capital. >> i haven't done anything wrong. it's a total lie. immediately, i become an individual that's now accused. and in america, we are supposed to be innocent until proch guilty and now i'm guilty until proven innocent. meanwhile, robert kennedy's estranged wife was buried today. she was moved to a site on cape cod. they bought 50 surrounding plots which would be reserved for her

six children. mary kennedy hanged herself in may after battling depression for much of her life. can a tarnished legacy ever recover? penn state's joe paterno was held up as everything that was right in college sports. winning with integrity, academics, running a true football program, now look at this. it is a mural at penn state that featured paterno with a halo over his head. yesterday, the artist that painted that mural removed the halo. squarery sandusky was removed from the mural earlier in the year. i asked what the findings will mean for joe paterno's legacy. >> people said, oh, his legacy has been completely shredded. i don't think it's shredded.

i think it's completely rewritten. in the space of what louis freeh's report confirms, those victories seem trivial. sometimes we see people have bad acts and then a long career where they can sort of make up with it. i think what you mentioned before, that his whole reputation was predicated on this righteousness. it's completely undercut what he stood for. i think this, like it or not, this is really his legacy now, unfortunately. >> and pater perternopaterno's e out and said, look, joe paterno was not perfect, but he's human and he came forward and spoke out more than anyone else in terms of all this. does he get remembered for all that he did right or does this carry him? >> unfortunately for him, a lot of people in this country don't know what he did right. you know, i know it seems as --

obviously, we're in sports and sports is our world. but for a lot of people, the first time they know or heard of joe paterno, was from the sandusky trial. so they only know this about him. that makes this difficult and why his legacy will be defined by this case. it isn't because the wins weren't significant or he wasn't a good person at penn state. it's the sandusky trial went into everyone's living room and so it defined who he was for a lot of people who didn't know joe paterno the coach. just joe paterno who didn't talk about his assistant coach raping boys. >> that's an interesting point. over the last few days, his former competitor and very close friend bobby bowden was asked about paterno's legacy and he was asked whether that statue outside beaver stadium thinks it should come down. he said he thinks it should. but he was asked about paterno's legacy. listen to this. you can hear the pain in his

voice. >> you know what his legacy is going to be. it's going to be this. now, this is -- i used to warn my football players over and over again. you be good, you be good, he set a good name, you get a good reputation, you can kill it in 15 minutes. you can kill it by one act. this is what's happening in joe's situation. >> yeah. let's broaden this out, john, and let's talk about other public figures. first in sports, i really want to know and people are telling me on twitter you can't compare the sandusky terrible acts to anyone else, but if you talk about pete rose, barry bonds, roger clemens, lance armstrong, just the fact that whether they're vindicated or not in the end, their names were tarnished and they were at the top of their game, what do you think when it comes to legacy? >> i think athletes are different than coaches. athletes, we don't expect them

to be perfect. humans, taking steroids is not something to condone. but they're records and home runs and you can make a statistical case. when you're a coach, when you're a leader, especially joe paterno whose whole image is predicated on morality and righteousness, this cover up, really, to me is just what seals it. i think he's in a much worse spot than a lance armstrong or a barry bonds. >> and at the same time, the point you made earlier about having time to do things after to make up, not only was this paterno's worst moment, it was right at his end of his life and this report came out after he died. talk politics, president clinton, despite the lewinski scandal, he's still massively popular, adored by many. look at a nixon and watergate. how much does this have to do with timing? >> i think of it has to do with

time, but also it's the degree of what the controversy or scandal has to be. when it comes to president clinton, had he run on a policy of family values, i'm a strong christian man, don't you ever cheat on your wife, i would we would look at him and monica lewinski differently than we do now. same thing with nixon. because of the type of persona he presented to the public. i think in terms of why it hurts paterno so much is the same thing jonathan is talking about, his persona is based on integri integrity. this isn't a single act. this is over a 14-year stretch. you go beyond making a singular mistake to a conscious decision to have a cover-up, that tarnishes the conversation.

president clinton, you can say he had a weak moment with a young lady in his white house. but it's hard to describe that when you have sh years of a cover up with paterno. >> big thanks to john and lz for joining me earlier tonight with that conversation. meantime, thousands of criminal convictions are right now under government review because the lab work results might be flawed. coming up, my conversations with an fbi about how this happened. 

well, the fbi and the justice department have recently launched an undertaking like nothing they ever ever done before. this is really interesting. they're reviewing thousands of criminal cases trying to find out if defendants were wrongly convicted and wrongly thrown in jail based on faulty forensic analysis. i talked to former fbi special agent harold copious about that and how he helped exonerate two men. take a listen. >> it was unbelievable, the number of people and the amount of time and the effort that the obstacles that you run into. so if you think about the fbi were to do this, they would do this in their field offices, i suspect they would create task forces which would mean an fbi agent and then some officers from local law enforcement. that's about the only way it can be done. quite frankly, maybe you can

only do one or two cases a year. >> now, i know that you left the fbi about 15 years ago. but i want to tell you something interesting that was reported in the washington post in april. they reported that justice officials had known for years about questionable forensic evidence or testimony in some trials, but they didn't take a new look at the cases at that time. they didn't notify the defendants or their attorneys of possible problems in the evidence. and i wonder, harold, your reaction to that. did anything like that occur while you were working for the fbi? >> it didn't and most of the agents would not know. if that happened, that sounds bad on the surface. we need to get that corrected. i will tell you that me and most of the agents i worked with would go out of their way to work real hard to make sure that the person that was potentially

going to be indicted, arrested and hopefully convicted, that it was a righteous case, meaning that there was no doubt that that person was guilty. we're not talking 99% or something, 99.9%. it has to be 100%. if it's not 1 hu00%, it's not wh going. the justice system cannot be broken in that way. >> in the cases that you dealt with that exonerated these men, you said one of the bigs challenges was reopening cases on that side. explain. >> well, really, there are always going to be a minimum of two victims, if someone wrongfully goes to jail, that is. you have the person would is in jail who is the victim and then you have all the family members of the person in these cases

they were murderers, but you have every one of those people in the extended family. they think, the family does, that justice has been served. and then all of a sudden something coming comes up and says, we're going to turn this card up down and we're going to shake it up and somebody is going to walk away, which means a lot of time has passed. how do we find the person who caused this crime? >> that also brings up the issue of statute of limitations and whether or not it is, indeed, leaning to another person, if they can even be tried depending on the crime. >> it does and it requires -- and when i said a lot of time, it's not just investigative time, it's attorney time and research. because what you have to do is you have to go back in there and hopefully uncover some evidence that will allow the attorneys to

a peel on new evidence. difficult task. >> harold, thank you so much for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. going broke, from wall street to main street, now entire cities. the paycheck for firefighters and police in one town now minimum wage. >> this is a catastrophic blow. i need to provide for my family.

well, just in week, san

bernardino, california, declared bankruptcy just weeks after stockton, california, did the same thing. >> scranton, pennsylvania, police and firefighters are now getting paid minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. why are some of the u.s.'s big cities right on the edge of fm disaster? i spoke with economist peter navarro and gary lewis. professor navarro told me the root of the problem is u.s. trade policy. >> the best jobs program is trade reform with china. what the heck does china have to do with scranton and san bernardino? everything. they stole our jobs. when we opened trade with china, we lost 6 million manufacturing jobs and got 25 million people, poppy, in this country who were underemployed, not earning a decent wage. and the reason why is we consume more than we make. and the tragedy of these cities is that they can't do anything.

the only thing they can do is basically penalize people and cut their wages or cut pensions or make the bondholders take a haircut. that's the only thing they can do and bankruptcy is a tool to do that. >> let's talk, gary. scranton is not in bankruptcy yet. would a bankruptcy filing allow scranton to pay police officers, firefighters more the minimum wage or is it going to obscure a bigger problem here? it's going to raise the cost of borrowing significantly, it's going to affect the muni market, it's going to affect investors and the people there. >> but the city shouldn't be doing all the borrowing it's done. we've got $55 million in authority that the authority has already defaulted on. the problem and the reason that we can't pay our public servants is because we're paying $8 million to $10 million a year in basically, you know, debt service costs. we need to get that under control. we need to restructure the debt. we need to address the pensions, which are becoming a massive

problem and are another massive expense for the city. i mean, we can't simply just cut the salaries of our employees and say that saves us money. we're contractually obligated to pay us money. they will win that lawsuit. >> you know what's funny here, poppy? it sounds like he's talking about the federal government because it's the same problem. we've gotten an economy that's not performing and so we can't pay our bills and nobody gets it. so if you're in scranton, i think it's a scranton problem. if you're in san bernardino, you think it's a san bernardino problem. across america, our cities are dying and our cities are dying because our economy is dying. i want to hear obama, i want to hear romney talking about how to get our manufacturing back to scranton, back to san bernardino and everywhere in between. reality is the manufacturing jobs that this country has lost is in the millions if you look at the last decade alone. a lot of those aren't coming

back and -- >> why do us that, poppy? why do us those jobs aren't coming back? >> because i talked to the heads of the big, big companies. general electric and others that have brought some of those jobs back here, but a lot of them aren't coming back. steve jobs said the same thing with apple. >> this isn't something you can fix overnight. >> general electric is one of the biggest parts of the problem here. they offshore to china. they make a bunch of money over there and the take their jobs out of schenectady they tell you we can never give them back. >> professor, i want to give gary the last word here. i want to preface this by saying, the mayor told the "l.a. times" it was a bad idea, cost them $10 million in legal fees, didn't cut their costs significantly and he said it hurt their reputation so that's something to think about, too,

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tonight in sunday night mysteries, we've reached the end of the solar system, literally. it's all man kind has ever known. but it looks like that is about to change. here is why. in 1977, nasa scientists launched the spacecraft voyager one. its job was to take photos and send them back to earth. first it flew past mars, then jupiter, saturn, and now more than three decades and 11 million miles later, it is still

going. nasa says very soon, possibly in the next few months, voyager one will become the first manmade object to leave the sup's gravitational pull and thus become the first manmade object to ever leave to solar system. what is it going to find? we may not get photos back. scientists best guess is that the interstellar space is a cold, dense vacuum. whatever it is, consider this, it was about 500 years ago that most of us believed the earth was flat and that the planets circled us. now hopefully we'll find out firsthand how much more may be out there. that is tonight's real sunday night mystery. and a short time ago, don lemon faced personal memories about when she was a victim of bullying taunted by other girls. her name is elizabeth. they relived those painful moments on national television hoping it might help other

victims. but then the unexpected happened. here is an e-mail we got from elizabeth's mother. she wrote into us and said many good things have come from the interview. one thing being my daughter's bullies who posted their practical joke of her on facebook saw cnn and called her to apologize. she happy. thank you for watching and my good friend, don lemon, back here next weekend. kidnapped, the attempt to recovery two americans kidnapped in egypt. and gone without a trace, two girls last seen riding their bikes near a lake. tires punctures after someone threw tacks on the road. good morning and welcome to

"early saturdtart." >> you know, you come back from vacation, you have a new anchor. >> thanks for joining us, everyone. i'm zoraida sambo will i n. up first, authorities in egypt trying to negotiate the release of two kidnapped victims. one of the victims is diabetic. and his family is not here he has his medication with him. mohammed sami joins us on the phone in sinai, egypt, right now. where do the negotiations stand right now with the kidnapper? >> they are trying to negotiate with the hostages. the kidnapper insists that his uncle be released fromri